Unfortunately our society really doesn’t support the idea of self-compassion. So hopefully we can change the adults and the teachers and everyone else around them to help support the concept. Most people are afraid that self-compassion is gonna lead to self-pity, or undermine your motivation, or it’s self indulgent, or it’s gonna do away with your sense of responsibility, or that it’s weak. These are all common cultural myths, which luckily research has disproven all of them. None of them are true, it’s actually the exact opposite but common culture hasn’t really learned that yet. So there’s a lot of blocks to self-compassion.
The Importance of Self-CompassionWe need self-compassion, first of all, just for ourselves to cope with the difficulty of life, right, and the more we give ourselves compassion, especially in a care giving context, whether we’re parents or teachers, or just working maybe with your older elderly parents or maybe you’re a therapist. Any time you work with someone or care for someone who is in pain, you are actually experiencing their pain in your own brain through the process of Empathetic Resonance, right, so we’re built to feel what other people are feeling. In addition…
